Vanilla - For What It's Worth

Summer came early as usual. This dude Vanilla came through with this beat tape that sounds like sippin passion fruit smoothies, windows down on your Accord 97, and hands greasy from that carnitas burrito you copped in the Mission.

Lion Babe - Treat Me Like Fire

It takes a second for this to come in but when it does, ooh wee! Fire.

2013 is starting off strong.

Phantom - Kisses

Kev was on Phantom las year at Coachella.  He's a cold sniper sometimes.  Based out of Finland. ALSO Listen to the track, "Scars" that dropped early last year.  It was my first put on.

Sunday Sleeper: Phlo Finister - Poster Girl EP

What the fuck? Where did this come from Raider Klan? This is insane.  Phlo Finister is 21 and stays in London. Peep her video for Hotel Miami (track five on the EP) after the jizza, it's amazing... this girl is the truth. I was sleeping... this came out the day the world was supposed to end.

The xx - Sunset (Jamie xx Edit)

I don't know if anyone understands why Jamie doesn't just get loose as fuck on every The XX track.  Why was that album so subdued? This man is one of the world's greatest producers.

Holy Motors

We write about music and videos mostly on here, but the platform remains for other noteworthy pieces art in general.  I've just finished watching Holy Motors and I might be ready to call it 2012's best film.  I still have a couple big ones to get to (namely Amour and Rust & Bone).  It is innovative, creative, bold, flashy, violent, sexy, and terrifying.  Written and directed by Leos Carax & starring Denis Lavant (easily giving the best performance of the year), Holy Motors jumps off the screen into your imagination permanently.  And does so in a way that many of the year's "best" films failed to.  This is something new, something experimental... This is for anyone who finds themselves bored with the conventions of narrative reality in contemporary cinema.  It's in no way a light film... don't watch it without patience and an open mind.  Or watch it to see Eva Mendez and Kylie Monogue get in the cleanest movie of either of their careers.

Jacques Renault - Back To You (Paradis Remix)

Parisian duo, Paradis, get loose with this new Jacques Renault track.  Paradis have a flair for the longer track; this track clocks in at over nine minutes.  Full of crackling synth, hisses, and blaring horns - the fractured architecture of music - their music pulls in the chaos to build the huge emotive landscapes.

“Back To You” is scheduled to drop on January 14 as a 12″, with the digital download coming on January 28. You can also preview the original tune here.

Short Stories - On The Way

More from Koreless and Sampha. January 28. 

Doc's Favorites of 2012

Favorite videos:
PHÉDRE - In Decay
Solange - Losing You
Paradis - Hémisphère

Favorite Songs:
Cos Ber Zam - Ne Noya (Daphni Mix)
Kendrick Lamar - Cartoon and Cereal
Just Friends (Nicolas Jaar and Sasha Spielberg) - Avalanche
Ultraísta - smalltalk (Four Tet remix)
Rhye - Open
Face + Heel - One Hundred Years Deep
Evian Christ - Fuck It None of Y'all Don't Rap
Alby Daniels - This Dawn
Lol Boys - Changes (Shlohmo Remix)
Frank Ocean - Pyramids
Blawan -Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage?

Favorite Films:
Monsieur Lazhar
Neighboring Sounds
Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Favorite Projects:
Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
Rush Midnight - +1
John Talabot - Fin
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
TNGHT - TNGHT

BenZel - Fallin' Love

BenZel, 15-year-old Umi Takahashi and 16-year-old Yoko Watanabe, display their sleepover-themed video for their new track Fallin' Love. 

Short Stories - Let It Go

Short Stories, a collaboration between Sampha and Koreless, will release their first track, Let It Go, on 28 January through Young Turks.

Danilo's Favorites of 2012

BEST TRACK:

1. Chromatics - Lady
2. John Talabot ft. Pional - Destiny
3. Diplo ft. Lazerdisk Party Sex - Set it Off 
4. Solange - Bad Girls (Verdine Version)
5. Inc. - The Place 
(HONORABLE MENTION: Frank Ocean - Pilot Jones, Lemonade - Neptune, How to Dress Well - Ocean Floor for Everything, Porcelain Raft - The Way In)

BEST PROJECT:

1. John Talabot - Fin
2. How to Dress Well - Total Loss
3. Chromatics - Kill For Love
4. Solange - True EP
5. Lemonade - Diver
(HONORABLE MENTION: Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream, Jessie Ware - Devotion, Beach House - Bloom, Porcelain Raft - Strange Weekend)  

BEST REMIX:

1. Major Lazer - Original Don (Flosstradamus Remix)
2. Jessie Ware - Running (Disclosure Remix) 
3. Kanye West - Mercy (RL Grime & Salva Remix) 

BEST LIVE SHOW

1. John Talabot - Decibel Festival, Neumos, Seattle WA
2. Frank Ocean - Showbox Market, Seattle WA
3. A$AP Rocky - Gobi Tent, Coachella, Indio CA

BEST MUSIC VIDEO:

1. A$AP Ferg - Work
2. Major Lazer - Get Free
3. Sigur Rós- Varúð
4. Alunageorge - Just a Touch 
5. Jessie Ware - 110%
(HONORABLE MENTION: Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes) 

2013, the year of the gods. Scream at me @Alan_danilo

yungvlad's Favorites of 2012

Music Video.

1. M.I.A. - Bad Girls

2. Rudimental - Not Giving In

3. Lee Fields - Faithful Man (Yours Truly Session)

Honorable Mentions: Fryars - In My Arms

Film.

1. Django Unchained

2. Jiro Dreams Of Sushi

3. Sleepwalk With Me

4. Moonrise Kingdom

5. The Dark Knight Rises

Track.

1. Disclosure - What's In Your Head

2. BJ The Chicago Kid - His Pain ft. Kendrick Lamar

3. Frank Ocean - Forrest Gump

4. E-40 - Function ft. Problem, IamSU, & YG

5. Future - Turn On The Lights

Honorable Mentions: Destiny's Child - Say My Name (Cyril Hahn Remix), Chief Keef - I Don't Like ft. Lil Reese, Ndeluv - Summerjamz

Project.

1. Disclosure - The Face EP

2. Future - Pluto

3. Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream

4. Jessie Ware - Devotion

5. Kendrick Lamar - good kid M.A.A.D. city

Honorable Mentions: Bei Maejor - Upscale (Mixtape), Frank Ocean - channel Orange, Kindness - World You Need A Change Of Mind, Chromatics - Kill For Love, IamSU - Kilt (Mixtape)

DJ Set

Rustie - BBC Essential Mix

#yolo, only positive frequencies & vibrations.

Ryan Hemsworth - BasedWorld

Hemsworth be stuntin'.

Toro Y Moi - Say That (official music video)

The video for Toro y Moi’s "So Many Details” recently reached 250K views and as promised, the man has released the amazing new video for "Say That". Check it out below.